Diane Setterfield Quotes

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

I never stopped reading.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he threw on my bed when he was finished with them. This continued throughout my childhood and made me a reader for life.

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.